Introduction -- Part One: The postwar years -- Becoming an attractive colony -- Triangulating colonial modernization -- Part Two: The decade of development -- (Re)framing postcolonial development -- Energizing the economic miracle -- Tapping the riches of a "backward" region -- Part Three: The...

In the backdrop of the understanding given by Sanyal's work relating the accumulation process to the subsistence economy and these in turn to legitimization and hegemony of accumulation through regulation of primitive accumulation and governmentality, we present concrete experiences from a site...

Instruments and idioms of colonial and national development: India's historical experience in comparative perspective / Sugata Bose -- Modernizing bureaucrats, backward Africans, and the development concept / Frederick Cooper -- Visions of postwar health and development and their impact on...